I wish I accomplished more today than I seem to have. I guess I shouldn’t have expected quite so much gearing back up after a weekend of being lazy for my birthday though and I’m not like, dangerously behind or anything. Anyway now it’s time for an abrupt end to this.

Music For Shuffle sketch #15 (by Matt Brown) â€œBeen playing…
You know there’s a weird thing that I haven’t quite figured out how to articulate about the New Aesthetic where a lot of the time the trick involves stripping away everything around a trick that’s actually been in use for a while now and forcing you to look at it. Enviromental audio in 3D games is…christ it can probably get a driversÂ licenseÂ at this point it’s so old. But there’s something strangely compelling about a project that is JUST audio keyed toÂ environmentalÂ triggers. It’s basically a tech demo as some weird artistic recontextualization and that’s somehow a whole class of object now. Game art is weird you guys.
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February 19, 2013 at 06:24AM
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Create false memories at home for fun and profit!
Nikki took my joke for this and put it on Facebook! I was going to ask if everybody remembered the time I did this to them but I’m already dating somebody who did that joke in a public setting and now I am doooooooooooooomed.
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February 19, 2013 at 09:23AM
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Anyway in another 30 years we’re going to have just swarms of these things following us around all the time if we can figure out the pathing issues and if not they’re going to be basically blanketing the skyline so…that’s a thing.
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February 19, 2013 at 01:36AM
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A software program that could reconstruct the earliest human languages
You know one of the most interesting things I learned in the etymology class I signed up for and then basically immediately started slacking off in and then took pass fail and became incredibly paranoid that I would fail it and then worked so hard at the end of the semester I got a B+ and felt stupid for taking it pass/fail was about the origins of language. Despite the fact that we have absolutely know idea what the firstÂ languagesÂ consisted of we can still tell with a shocking degree of certainty that it was languages plural. That is, we’re fairly confident that language developed independently in several different places instead of being an idea that somebody came up with and then just naturally spread to everybody because, obviously, language was a really great idea. Initially this kinda takes a while to wrap your head around because it seems like there kind of should have just been one group of people that pointed at a thing and went “fire” and then everybody else went “oh yes of course, fire” but once you accept it makes a weird amount of sense, like all the records we have at theÂ originsÂ of the written word complaining about how writing shit down was going to destroy the purity of spoken communication there were obviously going to be cavemen non-verbally shaking their heads who thought learning everybody else’s common names for “hard stuff on the ground” or “hot thing that you shouldn’t touch but makes food awesome” was just about the stupidest thing they’d ever heard. Naturally language would have to be discovered in a few different places and would have to slowly, over time, prove its value to humanity. The only shame is that unlike the written word we don’t have any record to laugh at all the people who hated the early adopters. That story has basically nothing to do with this io9 one but digital reconstructions of things are cool.